Jay Leno Makes Topical Video Game Jokes, Goony Faces with GT Academy Winner Ricardo Sánchez
2014 Nissan GT Academy International winner Ricardo Sánchez is living the dream. He went from racing in video games to racing on the track for NISMO at the 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps and in the Pirelli World Challenge series. He’s a sterling example of the possibilities that open up to you when you really put […]
Nissan GT Academy Winner Racing in America
Nissan has quite a unique way to acquire new drivers for its race teams. While it does hire drivers the traditional way, the automaker also holds competitions for video game drivers to see if they have what it takes to be a true racecar driver. The competition is called the GT Academy, and winners of […]
Inaugural Nissan GT Academy Winner to Race in Super GT
Nissan’s GT Academy has stolen headlines across the automotive since its creation in 2008. The one-of-a-kind competition turns video gamers into professional race car drivers, but the transition to full competition doesn’t happen overnight. RELATED: Nissan Demonstrates Smart Rearview Technology in 2014 Rogue The first-ever Nissan GT Academy winner, Lucas Ordóñez, has spent the last […]
Nissan GT Academy Winner to Race ZEOD RC at Le Mans
The most legendary endurance race in the world, the Le Mans 24 Hours, will signal the intersection of two of Nissan’s most revolutionary concepts in the past decade. On one hand, you Nissan’s revolutionary electric racecar, the ZEOD RC, and on the other is the first-ever video-gamer turned professional racecar driver from Nissan’s famed GT […]
Ford Awards $50,000 in Grants to Winners of STEAM High School Community Challenge
Ford Motor Company has announced the six student teams that will receive a share of $50,000 in grants as part of the 2018 Ford STEAM High School Community Challenge. The teams represent six different high school career academies from across the United States, and the winning proposals focus on addressing needs in their respective communities […]
GT Academy Alumni Prepare For Dubai
Nissan’s GT Academy competition is truly unique. Gamers who are the best at driving cars in the virtual world are brought out to tracks around the world to compete behind the wheel of real Nissan racecars for a place on a race team. Nissan believes in the drivers it finds through the program so much […]
The GT Academy Has a New Champion
The GT Academy is a truly ambitious competition that takes the world’s best video game drivers and translates their talent into actual track wins. This year’s competition saw 35 drivers from around the world come together in the UK for a tortuous eight-day Race Camp with Nissan. Ultimately Johnny Guindi Hamui, a 22-year-old from Mexico, emerged […]
5th Season of GT Academy in Full Swing
Nissan and PlayStation entered into a highly successful collaboration a few years back when the pair dreamed up GT Academy, which allows video gamers to test their skills on virtual tracks—and the best of the best to take those skills and put them into action on actual tracks. The 5th season of GT Academy started […]
Two Nissan GT-R LM NISMO Drivers Got Their Start on PlayStation 3
Three drivers have been announced for the brand new Nissan GT-R LM NISMO race car that will race in the LM P1 class, and two of them got their start in Nissan’s GT Academy, where they went from being video gamers to racing in some of the most elite classes of motorsport. Lucas Ordóñez and […]
Marc Gene will Pilot the Nissan GT-R LM NISMO
The first driver of the Nissan GT-R LM NISMO race car has been revealed. Marc Gene has been chosen as the first to pilot the GT-R LM NISMO in its first race, and he has quite an impressive resume. He’s raced in eight Le Mans 24 Hours races with one first place finish and has […]
Nissan GT-R Wins 2015 Bathurst 12-Hour
For the first time since 1992, a Nissan GT-R has taken the victory at Bathurst in Australia. The final driver of the race, Katsumasa Chiyo, passed two cars in the NISMO Nissan GT-R GT3 in the second to last lap to take first place. It was an exceptionally impressive feat considering the car was damaged […]
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Fourth Season of Nissan GT Academy Premieres Tonight
Update: You can check out the first episode, “Virtual to Reality,” below: *** Tonight marks the start of the fourth season of Nissan GT Academy, which premieres at 11:30 pm ET on Spike TV. The six-episode season will chronicle the quest of 12 contestants to translate their skills in Gran Turismo®6 on the PlayStation®3 into […]
France’s Gaëtan Paletou Crowned GT Academy 2014 European Race Camp Champion
Earlier this month, the NISMO PlayStation GT Academy 2014 European Race Camp ended with the victory of Gaëtan Paletou, a 22-year old gamer from Barzun in France. For those who are unfamiliar with GT Academy, it’s a collaboration between PlayStation and Nissan that invites the Gran Turismo video game franchise’s best players to try their […]
Ricardo Sanchez is Your GT Academy International Champ
Ricardo Sanchez of Mexico has won the title of Nissan PlayStation GT Academy International Champion and will now go on to four months in Nissan’s driver development program before inevitably making his professional debut for the Nissan NISMO race team in the January 2015 running of the Dubai 24 Hour race. Sanchez came out of […]
We’d Sure Like the Nissan 2020 Concept to Be the Next GT-R
Gallery: The Nissan 2020 is Gorgeous, Kinda Terrifying Nissan made good on its promise and brought a full size example of their 2020 Concept to the Goodwood Festival of Speed. And, yes, it’s every bit as beautiful and insane as you thought it was going to be. The 2020 Concept, which is probably maybe hopefully […]
Nissan GT Academy Team RJN Snags Silverstone Win
Nissan GT Academy Team RJN took the victory at the Pro-Am this past Sunday at Silverstone. Nick McMillen’s No.80 GT-R NISMO GT3 took first place in the Blancpain Endurance Series event, putting them second in the Pro-Am Cup standings early in the season as they look to defend their 2013 title. McMillen, the 2013 GT […]
Nissan GT-R NISMO Returns to Nürburgring 24 Hours
Nissan may be from Japan, but there is no truer home than Germany’s Nürburgring Nordschleife for the Nissan GT-R NISMO. The smoking hot car is well-known for setting a blistering 7 minute 8.670 second lap at the 15.7 mile track, a record among volume production vehicles. Nissan has announced the GT-R NISMO will be returning […]